Wigan (UK Parliament constituency)

Wigan
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Wigan in Greater Manchester.
Location of Greater Manchester within England.
County	Greater Manchester
Electorate	76,779 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1885
Member of parliament	Lisa Nandy (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Wigan, South West Lancashire
1545–1885
Number of members	Two
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
Replaced by	Wigan
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	North West England

Wigan is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Lisa Nandy, a member of the Labour Party.

Wigan was one of the important places called upon to send a representative (a 'burgess') to the Model Parliament of 1295 and to another in January 1307, however was not summoned during the remainder of the medieval period to send its representative to Westminster, instead waiting until Henry VIII's grant of two members to the town which is believed to have already been incorporated as a borough in 1246 following the issue of a charter by Henry III. After the end of the Middle Ages, in the Tudor period, Wigan was one of four boroughs in Lancashire possessing Royal Charters; the others were Lancaster, Liverpool and Preston.

The seat saw a reduction of the number of its members under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 which imposed single-member constituencies nationwide.

The death of Roger Stott in office in 1999 made him the fourth Wigan MP in the twentieth century to die in office (uniquely for a constituency in the United Kingdom): (the others being John Parkinson, Ronald Williams and William Foster).